San Diego Tea Party Leader arrested for kidnapping, rape

Source: East County Magazine

March 17, 2012 (Lemon Grove)—Lemon Grove resident Michael John Kobulnicky, 50, a leader in the San Diego Tea Party and former regional director of the Southern California Conservative Party, is under arrest for allegedly kidnapping and raping a local woman on Fiesta Island.

“He dragged her out of the car and sexually assaulted her pretty brutally,” San Diego Police Lt. Andra Brown told ECM news partner 10 News in late February, shortly after the February 25 assault occurred.
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According to his website, Kobulnicky supports Christian values, is a father of five sons, and is co-founder and president of the National Council of Americans, Inc, a nonprofit that helps youths. He also lists prior employment as faculty at California Miramar University, teacher and coach at Val Verde Unified School District, manager of a landscape design company, and more.

His Facebook page indicates he became engaged in early March and planned to be married in April. Kobulnicky, who is divorced, was accused of domestic violence in 2008, San Diego Superior Court records indicate.

What a family values kinda guy--and the right-wing conservatives in his party think a woman who is raped should have to give birth to her rapist's baby if she gets pregnant. Guess they're just interested in propagating their own.

2. I never thought anyone would advocate this stuff in public without meaning it - no surprise.

Really - why would anyone risk going up against the whole civilized world and advocating this sort of thing be legal if they weren't interested in it? Isn't this exactly what the Tea Party is advocating for?

67. +1

6. Lemon Grove

A friend of mine living in La Mesa (next to Lemon Grove) was arrested and charged with DUI. In addition to attending classes, he had to perform a number of hours picking up trash...around the Big Lemon.

It's time for another "Tea Party" in response to these thugs and bullies who make up the "conservative" wing of the GOP--

10. a woman with car trouble

16. Not the fiance.

Her photo is on his FB page and she looks much younger than the victim.

Police were posting surveillance video and asking public help to ID the guy, which clearly means he wasn't known to the victim, a woman who was walking and he offered her a ride home.

Also a good reminder here, never get in a car with anyone you don't know! If you are stranded with car trouble and someone stops, just ask them to call the police if you don't have a phone -- stay locked in your car.

15. The woman was wearing

A low cut blouse, and a real short dress. You see, she provoked it. He couldn't control his man parts, and so it's not his fault she teased him. With crowd today in the GOP that would probably be a good defense. Just like Sandra Fluke is to blame for Limpballs. The GOP today are more like the adults in South Park.

14. I bet Aunt Petunia's Silver Teapot

This isn't the first time he's raped a woman. This is just the first time he's been caught at it. He's also got an domestic violence arrest. My younger sister is in law enforcement and she tells me it's fairly common to find sex offenders with domestic violence arrests in their backgrounds. Like, duh.

26. And Shirley Sherrod...

And Unions, Moooozlims, Sharia, Common the rapper, Saul Olinski (not even going to bother check his name's spelling because I don't who the F he is), and Pink (sorry Black) Panthers, and of course, ACORN!
They were all in it.

57. Well this would never have happened if this wonderful country's virtues & morals hadn't been

19. This sort of violence from Teabaggers is not a joke any more

When the first of these sorts of stories about Teabagger adultery or DUIs came out, it seemed like a good opportunity to make fun of "Republican Family Values" and all that. But this story crosses the line from "behavior that is only noteworthy because conservatives are such hypocrites" into "really sick shit."

I mean, what *is* it with right-wingers? We know from studies that they're more fearful, more dependent on authority to tell them what to do, and often just not very smart. But why is there also a buried streak of violence in so many of them?

Between this and the Florida teen who was killed by a neighborhood vigilante, I'd like to officially declare a moratorium on making light of conservative violations of ordinary, decent human norms. There's something very wrong going on there, and seeing any of it as a source of humor -- or as a way for liberals to score points -- doesn't come to grips with the problem.

21. Rush's making light of the horrors committed at Abu Graif comes to mind.

They think this is funny, they're proud of him just like they didn't let up when Giffords was shot. The FB postings praising the killing of the little girl that day, since she'd grow up to a 'bleeding heart liberal' by allegedly Christian posters, quite young as well, terms their social views.

Terrifying POV, well armed, and increasingly in positions of authority. This will, of course, be written off as unrelated to any of my connections I've made... Just another lone crazed rapist...

44. You're absolutely right

It's time we stopped dismissing them. They're doing a great deal of damage with over a hundred laws in different states against women and abortion rights and contraception. They've declared war on us and this act is just one of the foot soldiers taking his reward forcibly.

73. Seems like most 'evangelical Christians' don't bother too much with the New Testament

An awful lot of what I hear coming out of the 'moral majority' and the 'evangelical Christians' has almost no relationship to the teachings of Jesus. Instead it seems much more firmly rooted in the 'God or wrath, God of vengeance' of the Old Testament. They don't seem to get that the Old Testament was written before the New Testament, and that the teachings of Christ (note: Christ is the root of Christianity) differed significantly from the teachings in the Old Testament. You can't really call yourself a Christian if you ignore the teachings of the guy you supposedly follow.

38. well, from what I've read he only raped a woman. It's not like he did anything horrible.

I mean if he had raped a baby, or maybe a fetus , THAT would have been bad. But it was only a woman and we all know that woman rate only as physical possession to be used for men's enjoyment so clearly, no harm, no foul, nothing to see here.....move along.

68. But in his mind beating women is ok...because that is conservative values...

70. What a piece of shit that guy is.

What's the penalty in California for kidnapping and rape? Here in Iowa, it's life without parole. Let's hope it's the same in California he gets that sentence.
And not that I'm advocating violence, but it seems like a shame that if someone beat this guy to a bloody pulp, he or she would be in jail even though they would be doing society a favor.
Oops, guess I should try and type a bit better. The ol' two fingered method just isn't working.

72. Sounds like sharia is being declared by conseratives

The same ones who railed against sharia law is practicing sharia law. Family values, remind me to steer clear of the ones for family values. Right wing sites claiming rapes, etc with the OWS folks, looks like they got the wrong information, it is tea party.

79. It's always the family values guys...

82. Disgusting. Just disgusting.

I ran into this guy, believe it or not, at Occupy San Diego. He is a complete loony toon. Came down to OSD to try and unite the Teabaggers and Occupy here in SD, and then the next minute turns around and runs up to Issa's office to trash talk Occupy and hold a teabagger rally.